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Is it possible to attend multiple parks in one day without park hopper? I ask this bc it would be cheaper to buy an additional days worth of tickets if they could be used in the manner I am asking about.
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How to attend multiple parks w/o park hopper
- Thread starter WoodyNBuzz
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- In the Parks
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We are staying onsite for 7 days. My wife said something about it only costing $10/ day after 5 days?
PUSH
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With each day, the price per day gets cheaper. It's not $99 per day, just for the first day only. As you add more days, the price for each following day gets cheaper, but you can't buy a 10-day ticket and use your extra three days to park hop. Instead you'd have to buy the park hopper option.
If I have any details wrong, someone please correct me, but this is what I've come across in past experiences.
RandomPrincess
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That is true but a ticket can only be used for one park a day unless you have a hopper. You would need multiple tickets for what you want to do.
Tom
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This is 100% correct. If you have a 10-day ticket, for example, you cannot use days 8, 9 and 10 to park-hop on earlier days. Once a ticket has gone through a turnstile, it will not allow additional days to be charged to the ticket until all parks have closed.
The ONLY way to park-hop on a multi-day ticket is to add park hopper. And don't let Disney's funny math confuse you....the Park Hopper option is less than the cost of another admission. Just add park-hopper to whatever multi-day ticket you buy, and you're good.
Tom
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Right, but the OP is only asking because he thought a park hopper add-on would cost more than the "only $10/day" Disney claims those last days cost, which is just funny math on Disney's marketing team's part.
The park-hopper add-on is less than the cost of any 1-day admission. Buying more tickets to be able to hop is SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive than the park hopper add-on.
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So park tickets themselves don't get cheaper the longer we stay?
HRHPrincessAriel
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danlb_2000
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The price you are paying per day goes down the more days you buy. If you buy a one day ticket it will be $99. A five day ticket will cost you $304 so you are only paying $60.00 a day. A six day ticket only costs $10 more, $314, so you are paying $52 a day.
RandomPrincess
Keep Moving Forward
They do but you are adding days to the same ticket. You don't get a new ticket for each day. The more days on the same ticket the cheaper each day but you can only get into one park per day with that multiday ticket unless you add the hopper option.
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Thank yall for the input. We leave in 17 days!
Goofyernmost
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A lot of words were spoken to explain this... Any multi-day ticket is good for one park and one park only per day. To go to a different park on the same day requires a Park hopper addition or a full day one park ticket. The Park hopper is very reasonable considering the fact the the price you pay is for the entire life of the multi-day ticket. If that is $55.00, that is what you pay for the entire time, Park Hopping everyday, if you wish. Even if you add Park hoppers to your 10 day ticket after using 9 days, it will still cost the same as if you had it the entire time, no discounts. Also, it's not $55.00 per day, it is $55.00 for the full 10 days.
Dad 2 M & M
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...Correct...what I'm seeing is $60 for adding Park Hopper to a 10 day ticket.....$440.91 for a 10 Day Ticket with Park Hopper or $377.01 for a 10 Day Ticket Without Park Hopper....no brainer!
dreamfinder
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The longer your ticket, the less it costs to add extra days. But this is because Disney wants to keep you on property. If you go from a 5 day ticket to a 7 day ticket, that is 2 less days you are elsewhere in Orlando, and 2 more days that WDW has a chance at getting some money out of you. Between food, hotels and merchandise, they want you to keep coming back.
Note that the tickets are sold as days, not parks. So while going from 5 to 6 days may only cost you an extra $10, it entitles you to enter the parks on another DAY. If you have hopping, then you can go to multiple parks, otherwise its a one park per DAY.
Matt_Black
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Also, bear in mind- the park hopper only covers MK, Epcot, DHS, and DAK. To go to either of the water parks or DisneyQuest requires either separate paid admission or the Water Parks & More option. Now, since you're leaving in 17 days, one of those two water parks will definitely be closed. The other might be closed as well depending on the temperature.
righttrack
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You aren't getting 10 individual tickets with a 10 day ticket. You're getting one ticket that is good for 10 days. If you use "Day One" at Magic Kingdom, you can't use "Day Two" at Epcot for the same calendar day. With a 10 day ticket, you can only use one ticket PER DAY. So while I can see you thinking, oh, these are just tickets and I can use them when I want, why not get a 10 day ticket for 5 days and use two tickets per day. It DOES NOT work that way. The ticket is an electronic ticket tied to an individual person/fingerprint. You need a park hopper option added onto your tickets because that is the only way to do multiple parks in a day.
Mouse_Trap
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Perhaps where the OP got confused, and where I almost made a mistake once before - the Park Hopper add-on is a flat fee. It doesn't matter if you have a 10-day ticket, a 1-day ticket or anything in-between, the price to 'upgrade' remains the same. The same applies to the 'Water Parks & More' option. This also means that there is no price difference to addition the option on at the beginning, part-way through or even right at the end.